From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin McDonald Subject: Re: RAID 1 on a server with possible mad mobo Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:48:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <422DF363.6090105@steeleye.com> Reply-To: Colin McDonald Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <422DF363.6090105@steeleye.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Clements Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Thanks for the suggestions. Let me ask an additional question. Is it a bad idea to write the grub to a software mirror. Is it written to a specific disk when this is done? If I had a corrupt boot loader or boot sector and i needed to rescue. Would I point to the md device or one of the disks (or both). TIA On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:48:03 -0500, Paul Clements wrote: > Colin McDonald wrote: > > > Without taking up to much of y'alls time, what would be the best > > solution for moving the RAID array over to a new box? > > > 2. Try to boot off of the disks after they have been transferred into > > the new machine? I know this will cause all kinds of problems with > > kernel/devices, etc and probably won't work. > > Actually, I've done this a couple of times with both Red Hat and SUSE > and it's worked surprisingly well. With the kernel being mostly modular > and the hardware detection/configuration utilities being pretty advanced > these days, it's not much of a problem. (I had a minor issue with SUSE > doing this sort of thing because the MAC address of the NIC was > different, so the network stuff was not getting configured. On Red Hat > [and hopefully Fedora is still the same] you should get prompted at > bootup if there is any hardware to add or remove.) > > Especially if you're wanting to keep the system configuration exactly > the same, this may be the way to go, rather than trying to reconfigure > everything exactly the way you had it before. > > And of course if, after booting the new system with the old disks, you > find that things are not quite right, you can always re-install at that > point... > > -- > Paul >